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Author: Pink
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Date: May 26, 2182 (Earth Standard Time)
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Location: Orestes Outpost
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Olive's become quite the young lady. She's twelve now. She takes
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after her father. I can't blame her for that. He took care of her
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alone for the first five years of her life.
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I wish, so deeply, that I could have that time back. I learned not
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to blame myself so much for neglecting her, but that took a long
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time. I can only put that lapse of judgement and responsibility
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down to the effects of the crystals, and the subsequent withdrawal
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of those effects.
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There are true crystals and false crystals. False crystals are
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everywhere. They are shiny, man-made. They come in the form of
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computer screens, space rockets, fancy clothes and beautiful
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objects of all kinds. They are complex, manifold, but they are
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artificial. Designed to mimic an effect. You can find that effect
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in true crystals. True crystals are dense formations that reflect
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the cosmos.
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There is true and false love too. False love can feel so nice and
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can work well for a while, but true love is a whole other story. It
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was eons in the making and bound tighter than the earth is to the
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sun. True love is like true crystals. What I had with Green wasn't
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true love, it was something to cover over the loneliness. The
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crystals were the real thing. They were deep, universal,
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unbreakable. That was why I rejected Olive, I suppose. She seemed
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to emerge out of something false. But I was wrong, what I feel for
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her now is unshakable.
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That is why I am so happy that it was Olive who finally returned
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the crystals to us again.
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I don't know how she did it. She is a strange child in many ways.
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She had Green fashion her a space suit, and she's been going on her
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little exoduses to that rock with the scribbles twice a day. Navy
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accompanies her. He says she just sits by the rock and mumbles
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things to herself. Anyway, after several months of this, Navy
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reported to us that, on their trip there this morning, two tiny
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masses of red crystals had begun to form.
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I'm still too excited to even go and look. Could they really be
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back?
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Anyway, I suppose that's why I'm writing this message to the void.
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I'm trying to postpone going and seeing for myself. I want to prove
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to myself that I don't really need them, that I'm happy with what I
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have now; Olive and Green.
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Sent via the QEC
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